Love
XXXVI
From Poems & Ballads (Second Series)
Love
O well-beloved, our brethren, if ye be,
Then are we not forsaken. This kind earth
Made fragrant once for all time with your birth,
And bright for all men with your love, and worth
The clasp and kiss and wedlock of the sea,
Were not your mother if not your brethren we.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/412/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/412/.
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